Osamu Shimomura
Osamu Shimomura (born August 27, 1928, Fukuchiyama, Japan; died 2018), was a Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist. Shimomura's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Order of Culture and Asahi Prize.
Osamu Shimomura’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Dragon, with 
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Osamu Shimomura’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
Osamu’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Lilac · Gold
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What the chart says
Osamu, according to the stars
Core essence
Osamu notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Osamu is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Osamu is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Osamu needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Osamu wants to be loved
Osamu wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Osamu and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Osamu creates
How Osamu makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Osamu creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Osamu is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Osamu is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Osamu leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Osamu scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Osamu's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Osamu Shimomura's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 27, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Earth Dragon
Earth DragonConfident before the proof.
Osamu Shimomura was born on August 27, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Osamu Shimomura's birth date, August 27, 1928, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Osamu’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Osamu Shimomura's date-only chart is Mercury square Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Osamu Shimomura combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Osamu’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Osamu Shimomura, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMoontrineMercury0.1° to 6.8° orb
Osamu’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.4° to 2.2° orb
Osamu’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableVenussextilePluto0.7° to 1.9° orb
Osamu’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn1.2° to 1.8° orb
Osamu’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMercurysquareMars2.2° to 3.4° orb
Osamu’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurytrineJupiter2.6° to 4.4° orb
Osamu’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextilePluto3.1° to 4.9° orb
Osamu’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune4.0° to 4.9° orb
Osamu’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarssextileUranus4.1° to 4.7° orb
Osamu’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.0° to 5.5° orb
Osamu’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturntrineUranus5.9° to 6.0° orb
Osamu’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Osamu’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 10°06′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Osamu building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 12°26′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Osamu is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 9°20′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Osamu is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 16°01′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Osamu is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 0°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Osamu leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Ceres square Saturn 0.1°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 0.3°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.1°
- Ceres opposition Mercury 1.4°
- Ceres square Mars 1.4°
- Eros square Mars 1.7°
- Hygiea opposition Pluto 1.8°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.0°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 2.1°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Osamu’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☿ Mercury14 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 6 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Osamu is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Osamu’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Mercury · Mars, Saturn, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.7°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 2.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Osamu Shimomura, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Osamu’s cards
Every card is computed from August 27, 1928, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Osamu Shimomura, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Osamu’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q205345, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Prolineserver (talk), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Osamu Shimomura’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Osamu Shimomura?
- Osamu Shimomura was a Virgo: born August 27, 1928, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon.
- What was Osamu Shimomura's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 27, 1928 birth.
- What time was Osamu Shimomura born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- How tall was Osamu Shimomura?
- Osamu Shimomura was 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Osamu Shimomura's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the August 27, 1928 birth date.
- What was Osamu Shimomura's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 27, 1928 birth date.
- Where was Osamu Shimomura's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Osamu Shimomura's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 6 major aspects). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
